Sfumato Gallery

New Works

Our Curatorial Vision

At Sfumato Gallery, we believe the most powerful art doesn’t announce itself — it reveals itself slowly. Named after the Renaissance technique of blurring boundaries between light and shadow, we curate work that resists easy definition.

Our exhibitions bring together artists who explore identity, memory, and transformation. From Mher Khachatryan’s haunting smoke paintings on black canvas, to Hakob Hakobyan’s radiant color-driven canvases, to Kseniya Wooster’s warm and life-affirming oils — each artist we represent carries a distinct voice, yet all share a belief in art as something felt, not just seen.

We don’t just show art. We create the conditions for it to speak.

Featured Artists

Representing emerging and established voices in contemporary art.

The Space

A contemporary exhibition space designed
for dialogue and immersion.

Karen Akhikyan: Sculptures That Decide Their Own Emotion

Born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1963, Karen Akhikyan came to wire sculpture not through formal training but through a lifelong obsession with art in all its forms — oil painting, batik, and eventually metal. Over the past fifteen years he has become one of the most quietly remarkable sculptors working today, with pieces held in private collections across more than sixty countries and recent solo exhibitions in Istanbul, Yerevan, and Los Angeles.

What makes Karen’s work so compelling is his philosophy: he doesn’t decide what emotion a sculpture should carry — he lets the sculpture decide. At Sfumato, we’re drawn to artists who surrender a little control to the work itself. Karen does exactly that, and the result is something that feels alive in your hands.